It's time, it's time! Halloween for Bella and Jasper! So, as usual, everything Twilight belongs to Stephenie Meyer. I just like to play with the characters. Beta-ing done by the wonderful EdwardsMate4Ever.
WARNING - This story features the Cullens acting like traditional vampires.
Dark and Stormy Night. – Chapter 2
She could see the driver smirk in the rear view mirror. He cut his eyes back to her but then looked ahead. The big guy turned in his seat, and "Do you like scary stories? Because you're in one."
Though her stomach clenched with fear at his words, Bella felt for the pepper spray Charlie always insisted she keep in her purse. She would wait until the car slowed then jump out.
That moment came quickly. The driver slowed, and Bella reached for the door with one hand, holding the pepper spray with the other.
But in a flash, she was alone in the car. The two men had vanished from the front seat, in a motion so quick she only heard the car door close behind them. They had left the headlights on, but the lights only shone a short distance in the dense trees.
She decided to stay in the car for a few minutes. The rain had slowed, with only a faint drizzle falling on the windshield. The car was in a small clearing. There was the usual mix of fallen logs and upright mature trees around the car. As she waited to catch her breath, she looked into the area illuminated by the headlights for any signs of the two guys.
Nothing. Probably hiding behind the trees, waiting to jump out.
She resisted the temptation to turn on the interior light as that would make the world outside the car go black. She didn't want to make it any easier for those two jerks to sneak up on the car.
This had to be some kind of a Halloween prank. When she reached Charlie, she would make sure they knew it wasn't funny. Maybe they were doing this because she was Charlie's daughter. The thought gave her a spike of fear, thinking they might be trying to even a score, but then, they would know he was in law enforcement. They would have to know they couldn't take things too far.
Bella leaned over the front seat and checked for the keys. Not in the ignition. She pushed the button to lock all car doors, then sat back and waited.
There was the faint sound of rain on the roof. Ordinarily, she might have found this relaxing, but not tonight. It would only serve to obscure the sound of anyone sneaking back up to the car.
After listening to the patter of rain on the roof, a sudden thump made her jump. A hand slid down the window, dangling the automated car key, the clicker bumping up against an assortment of other metal keys. She heard the sound of the beep as the button was pushed.
The door unlocked and she threw her hand over the lock button. Then it locked again.
It was silent for a second, then whoever was on the roof began to rock the car back and forth. She gritted her teeth and hung onto the seat in front of her.
This was taking the joke too far.
"Cut it out," she said. "Joke's over. This isn't funny."
She heard a laugh. "Come out and play with us," a male voice sang out in a soft falsetto.
"We'll have so much fun," said a much deeper voice.
Bella huddled in the middle of the backseat, keeping her arms from the doors. There was the sound of a click and before she could register the motion, the guy who had been driving was sitting in the front seat, peering around and grinning at her.
"Gonna stay back there?" he leered.
The back door opened and the huge guy slid in next to her. "We'll keep you company," he said as he put his hand on her knee.
"Don't touch me," Bella yelled, anger momentarily pushing back fear. She pushed at his hand, which felt cold and rock hard. Not like flesh at all. He responded by gripping her knee and slowly sliding it up her thigh, caressing it slightly. She opened the door and jumped out, running into the dark forest.
"And now the fun can begin," said one of them. She heard the car doors close behind her.
She turned around, her back against a tree, and saw the car was empty. Neither of the guys were standing next to it. The headlights were now off, but a flare lay in the middle of the clearing at the edge of the small road they had driven in on. It shed some light into the area, but mostly pointed up the shadows that danced in the flickering light.
"Looking for me?" came a voice across the small clearing. The tall redhead was standing there. "Where you gonna go?" To her horror, he pulled up a small sapling with one hand and threw it into the middle of the clearing.
A soft thump sounded next to her and the big guy was standing next to her. "And how you gonna get there without me being there first?" He looked up and her eyes rose involuntary. There was the dark shadow of a branch overhead, barely visible. It had to be twenty feet over their heads. How had he gotten there?
She started to walk around the tree, keeping her back to it but moving away from him. When she was on the other side, she started toward another tree.
"Boo," said the big guy, peeking out from behind it.
Wait, hadn't she just left him at the other tree? Her head spun—she was so confused.
She stumbled into the darkness, unable to see, feeling her way. She tripped but before she could hit the ground, someone grabbed her at the waist and stood her upright.
"No hitting the ground too early. That's no fun," said a voice from the dark.
Tears stung her eyes as she gasped for breath. She stood still, trying to tell where they were as the flare from the clearing died.
"A little light, maybe?"
Another flare appeared on a nurse log in front of her, between the two trees growing from it. It struck her how grisly-looking the trees were, their roots encircling the slowly decaying log beneath them, feeding from it like parasites.
A light shone behind her. The car's headlights were back on. She stood between the flare and the headlights, darkness in between them and all around.
Go forward or back?
A hiss sounded next to her. She fingered the pepper spray. It didn't seem enough against these two. She had heard that drugs like PCP could give unnatural strength to drug addicts. But then again, they had brought her to this spot. Maybe the sapling the one guy threw had been a prop.
It didn't mean they weren't going to hurt her though.
She felt a hard body behind her and screamed. It was the big guy, and he had just appeared, directly behind her. She jumped forward and he laughed.
"That got a reaction." He laughed.
She stumbled forward, back toward the car. She felt herself slip and grabbed for a tree.
The trunk scratched her hand and she pulled it back, looking at the blood starting to ooze from a cut in her palm.
"Now we're talking," came a voice behind her. She put her back to the tree. The two men were directly in front of her, their eyes focused on her hand.
"I think it needs to be stitched. You guys need to get me to a doctor, now," she said in a voice that she hoped would be stronger.
The big guy looked like he was licking his lips.
"We said we'd wait for him," the tall one growled.
"Yeah, well I'm ready now," the big guy said with a chuckle.
Bella got her pepper spray ready in her uninjured hand. Would it be enough for both of them? Before she had a chance to find out, she heard a sound like a roar from the forest. Had they attracted a bear?
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Thank you for reading my Halloween story. Hope you're ready for a bumpy ride, because this is a scary one.
And I have enough stories/chapters to switch to three postings per week from now to Halloween!
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Enjoy your October!